The Best Picture winner of its year but mostly forgotten today, it reminded me of one of those more modern "nostalgia" movies like Here or Forrest Gump where the characters intersect with world events over an extended period that people alive at the time might remember, except this time it's literally the Boer War etc. Like some of those movies, it sort of forgets to have a coherent plot or other reason for existing. It does have a few montages…
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Weekend 1967
My take on a lot of Jean-Luc Godard's stuff from his classic New Wave period is basically "I guess you had to be there" and to take things a step further, I was utterly flummoxed by this movie. Whatever it is trying to say, I did not get it, so that's on me. At one point there is a ten minute tracking shot along a traffic jam that is justly famous, but I didn't have any context for it.
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Madame Web 2024
I actually had a pretty good time with this one, though to be clear it is not a good movie at all. It sort of seemed like there could have been a good movie in there if anyone connected with this made any good decisions. But they did not. If they had just cast a different actress in the lead, it would have gone a long way. Dakota Johnson may be good at some stuff but this is not that…
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Ugetsu 1953
A beautiful post-war Japanese film that is definitely anti-war like every other movie made in Japan around this time but doesn't feel like homework. It even has a double ghost twist ("she was also dead the whole time! haHA!"). Tells the stories of two men from a village in rural Japan during a civil war in the 1500s, who each dream of bigger things, to the great detriment of themselves and their families.
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